What are the big ideas of the next decade? The ideas which have the greatest potential to create a better world?

This virtual shelf in our library features the best videos our community has discovered that answers just that.

This page isn't just about great ideas though; these are the revolutionary ideas of our time, the kind of ideas no less profound than what propelled Europe from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. Our best rated selections are guaranteed to inspire your creative thinking and offer radical breakthroughs in understanding. We also tag films with this subject if they get to the root of our society's problems and offer ways we can solve them.

Have you found a good film that should be in this library? Add it! This library isn't just about what our editors discover. The knowledge of the world is far too vast for anyone to be able to digest everything or see all the videos that there are now to see. So if you find a great gem be sure to share it here!

Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. It offers a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.

Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves.

Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover.

From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible.

But most of all, we need to see the promise of the alternatives - we need to be able to imagine new exciting ways that people could live, better than anything that the old paradigm could ever dream of providing.

And all of this knowledge and introspection, dreaming, questioning, and discovery is essential for a cultural transformation that addresses root causes. This knowledge is vitally necessary. Taken together, this knowledge, which is documented throughout the 500+ documentaries on the Films For Action website, will lay the foundation on which the next paradigm will be built, post empire.

So take this library of films and use it. Host film screenings, share these films with friends, buy and give copies to your elected officials and school faculty. Get this information out in to your community and you will be laying the foundation for a local movement for mass societal, environmental and economic change.